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Internally, Frink references all date/time values as a number of seconds relative to Julian Day 0 referenced to UTC. The internal numeric type is Frink's "do the right thing" numeric type which can be exact rational numbers, arbitrary-precision floating-point numbers, or even intervals, which gives essentially arbitrary precision and exact round-trip capability to any date/time value stored. These are transparently converted to arbitrary timezones or date systems for display.